by Morley Evans
The COVID-19 pandemic must have devastated people in the Third World who are mal-nourished and probably have weakened immune systems as a result. How did the do? Here is a very interesting table.
It certainly appears that India did MUCH better than the United States. Isn't that interesting? Can we believe these numbers? I'll check.
Dr Michael Hardy, MD, reports this:
I'm really concerned that we're comparing apples and oranges here. Determining fatality rates by dividing 'deaths' by 'çases' is fraught with difficulty and I'm more convinced by observed deaths minus expected deaths. Such data are not easily obtained except for a few countries and interestingly the ones with the higher fatality rates.
I've done some of my own numbers and by continent, death rates compared to the world (5.84%) are:
Europe 8.63%
N America 6.04%
Asia 2.60%
S America 4,45%
Africa 2.77%
Either every continent has a different form of the virus! or reporting statistics vary wildly from place to place. Do we really believe that third world countries had better preventive measures and treatment modalities/facilities than the rest of us?
And to further demonstrate this point in more detail, I have looked at the various countries in the Arabian peninsula where tens of thousands of people have been infected but almost nobody is dying from it and if you believe that...
Saudi 0.67%
Oman 0.48%
Qatar 0.08%
Kuwait 0.80%
UAE 0.74%
Bahrain 0.16%
... so on average a fatality rate of 0.49%. If we are to believe all of these figures then together the countries of the Arabian peninsula were thirty times more successful in preventing and treating patients with the same viral disease as the United Kingdom. We may be useless but not that useless. Mike
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